Calculating how many breaks you need if you do all horizontal breaks and then all vertical will get you one answer, but then there's the doubt that if you break it in a cleverer way you might be able to reduce the number.
Thinking of it the way the solution does shows that this number of breaks is indeed the best possible.
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